Stuart Wheaton is a senior software engineer in Ann Arbor with 11 years of experience building platforms that help teams move faster and more reliably, currently shaping backend systems at Voxel51. He brings deep systems and data-management expertise from roles at Johns Hopkins APL and Orbital Insight, where he led teams and designed scalable, bandwidth-conscious database and networking layers. A pragmatic tinkerer and lifelong learner, Stuart contributes to the open-source FiftyOne project—improving CSV import/export robustness and edge-case parsing for visual AI datasets. He holds a strong academic record (MEng and BS in Computer Science, near-perfect GPAs) and a hands-on history from embedded C to full-stack tooling, which informs a rare blend of low-level rigor and product-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.97/4.00, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.97/4.00 at University of Michigan
Johns Hopkins University
Computer Vision Nanodegree, Computer Vision Nanodegree at Udacity
Contributions:359 reviews, 1 commit, 146 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stuart focused on improving the CSV exporter and importer within the fiftyone/fiftyone repository, introducing new functionality for handling list values and restoring end-to-end tests. The user also worked on fixing various issues, including handling remote paths and adding comments to the code. These contributions centered around enhancing the CSV import/export utility with additional parsers and importers.
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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Stuart Wheaton - Senior Software Engineer at Voxel51